Individuals in the war

[navarrod2003]

I have two questions. I have two individuals in mind. John Basilone and Hans-Joachim Marseille. The hero of Guadalcanal and the star of North Africa. If you could do a individual video on each of them? I really enjoy your work and I wish all the best for the team behind this. Godspeed.

[NormanStewart]

I do also hope they make a video on Basilone. I’ve actually covered Basilone in this post:

Medal of Honor recipients (October 1942)

Sgt John Basilone, 26, USMC (1916–1945) Company D, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division Lunga Area, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands October 24-25, 1942 Presented May 21, 1943 [BasiloneSsgtUSMC] The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sgt John “Manila John” Basilone (MCSN: 287506), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action against enemy Japanese forces…

[michael]

James Holland covers Marseille in detail in War in the West part 2. Like most of the Luftwaffe aces, he was driven into the ground by unrelenting combat, no rotation out. Poor bastard.

[1nt17cs152.ritvik]

Is it because Germany was running low on manpower already in 1941? Or did they follow their tricks at Verdun again “where the best of the best” troops were kept so as to deal a great amount of damage to the enemy?